How Tapping Can Help You Deal With a Debilitating Disease

Losing a loved one is one of the most difficult things any of us will ever face, whatever the circumstances. However, when we have to take care of a family member with a terminal illness or debilitating disease in the months or even years before they might leave us, our grief can become compounded with anger, disbelief, and a deep sense of powerlessness—a whole array of emotions that can feel impossible to comprehend or escape.

Thankfully, many are discovering what I’ve known for some time now: Tapping can be a quick, easy, and lasting source of relief for both caretakers and those battling serious illness.

Since I began using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), also known as Tapping, to heal myself and others just over ten years ago, I’ve heard countless stories about how using this tool has liberated people from a whole host of issues: excess body weight, chronic pains, childhood trauma, depression, and even inescapable phobias. Still, I was deeply touched when Magdalena Grogg and her husband Stefan contacted me after they completed one of our Tapping programs to share their story.

Stefan’s Saga

In the late 90s, Stefan Grogg was a star ice hockey player in his home of Switzerland. Not only did he help his team EV Zug win a league championship, he was also selected to play on the Swiss national team during the 1997 Ice Hockey World Championships.

Ten years later, however, Stefan and his soon-to-be wife Magdalena would discover he had been diagnosed with ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Not surprisingly, Stefan would show the same tenacity he displayed on the ice in his new battle to understand and even overcome his illness.

Still, it was crushing for the new couple. Despite numerous hospital treatments and alternative healing methods, such as acupuncture and homeopathy, Stefan slowly lost his ability to move, talk, and function as he used to do.

“He used to be so big, strong, and fast, and that all slipped away,” says Magdalena. “It was very hard to watch, and it was even harder for him. We were feeling so trapped by this diagnosis. It was terrible.”

Still, their search for any kind of relief continued, with Magdalena scouring the Internet for little known and oft-neglected treatments. It was this hunt that led her to Tapping, which she at first found a bit puzzling.

“It looked so funny—people tapping all over their face—but I decided to try it with Stef.”

What happened over a few sessions wasn’t a cure or some unexplainable miracle, but it proved to be a most welcome surprise.

“I had to do it for him, and it was so simple and gentle, but the effects were incredible,” says Magdalena. “We felt like a huge stone had been lifted from our backs. There was so much going on, but it started to feel so much lighter and easier to deal with. It opened all of the doors.”

As Magdalena and Stefan would come to understand, Tapping works on the energy meridians in the body that are manipulated during acupuncture, only without needles. The result is an easy technique that combines the principles of Eastern energy healing and modern psychotherapy to dissolve the blocks in your body and psyche to the emotional and physical healing you so desperately need.

A New Life

Since their discovery, Magdalena and Stefan have watched their lives transform. Now they use Tapping to deal with their daily challenges before they become unmanageable burdens.

“It really helps Stefan to work through his old emotions and his frustrations about his condition and his insecurity about the future,” says Magdalena. “We also tap when he has visitors, because he’s nervous about how they’ll react to how he looks now. Tapping calms him down so he can enjoy the visit. For me, I use it to address my fear that I can’t handle the situation and my need to control everything.”

Magdalena Grogg

“With Tapping, we’re able to go to the root of these feelings and clear them.”

Although their future may be uncertain, both Magdalena and Stefan are able to enjoy their time together now. Their new freedom is much like what I hear from so many people around the world who’ve made Tapping a part of their self-care routine. The results are nothing short of wondrous.

“We have so much more joy in our lives now. We laugh so much more than before,” says Magdalena. “When we hear our friends talk about their sorrows, we don’t know what they’re unhappy about! Even in our situation, we have so much; Tapping gives us the space to see it.”

Nick Ortner is the CEO of The Tapping Solution and creator and executive producer of the breakthrough documentary, The Tapping Solution, which explores EFT or “tapping,” a healing tool based on ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology. Nick is also producer of the Tapping World Summit, a free worldwide online event currently heading into its fifth year, which has been attended by over 500,000 people.

I am usually a huge fan of Positively Positive, but using it as a platform to sell an event that looks VERY scammy (not the EFT itself, just the event and the supposed dollar values of each package), is kind of questionable.

PP

I was thinking EXACTLY the same while reading and looking into this TE! I don’t like it.

Beth

To TE and PP….that was exactly my very first thought and reaction. I do hope that this is worth looking into. BMH

hmmmmm

I’m going to go with my gut instinct here, too. Call me cynical, but this article, written by the CEO himself, sounds like one big marketing plug. There are ‘free’ events all over the world promising to solve your long-term issues with a quick fix. Participants may attend without paying a cent, but I’m assuming most people will have bought a DVD or a book or donated by the time the ‘free’ conference is over.

Gram

It’s free TE…

PP

Yes it is free Gram, but you will have to give them your information…

decoda

This is worth looking into. I took a brief course on acupressure once and what they describe here is true. It left me feeling lighter, like some block was removed. Hey, if it’s free, the only investment is time. I can handle that!

decoda

The one thing I question is how effective it is with just “audio” sharing. Seems to me you need visual as well.

Tonia

I look forward to using the Tapping experience. I’m sure it help me thru some pains I’ve carried for some years. Thank u:-)

Lisa

Just a quick note to the skeptics…I hope your judgement of Nick and his work will not keep you from realizing the amazing and proven benefits of tapping. And BTW, he is not “selling” an event, it’s free. From what I’ve seen of Nick and his work, I would say that he is the one person responsible for propelling EFT to mainstream usage for healing and self-healing. He is a remarkably giving human being, and although I’ve never met him, he is a huge inspiration to me on many levels! ….namaste

http://www.facebook.com/DarcyWeinstein Darcy Miller Weinstein

This is not a scam. I have used tapping and it works to diminish anxiety. I am an RN, Open Heart ICU. Don’t doubt the value of this until you have tried it. Thanks.

Bobbie

Darcy, you are a coward to post something to my facebook and block me, you said the following, My response is that it is a parent’s responsibility to feed, cloth, educate, completely provide for their children. To bring children into the world and expect the government to do these things is horrible. Some self respect and self reliance was obviously not ever taught to you. If you are not self reliant how can you help others that are really in need. It is not the government’s responsibility to do these things, and yes I am a Republican. I apologize for posting here, but you blocked your facebook.

Darcy Miller Weinstein

I am ashamed I ever voted Republican which has been most of my adult life. I will never forgive them . They have become cold-hearted, uncaring, and mean-spirited.Head Start programs for tens of thousands of children, WIC food programs and health care programs/prenatal care, cut salaries to people who did NOTHING to them, abused soldiers and their families…where is the JESUS in that? The list goes on and on. I have urged President Obama to hold his ground up to and beyond October 17. It is the goal of the Republicans to wipe out all existing traces of Mr. Obama and the Democrats and the good they have done in spite of the sheer hatred and red-hot blind anger of the Republicans ; all by allowing the Tea Party self-righteousness to bully and brow-beat everybody that doesn’t agree with them. When the country collapses and the international community allows us to eat our integrity and credibility from the inside out maybe the Republicans will have learned a lesson, albeit the hardest way possible. They and theirs will also suffer but some lessons are best served cold. They will reap what they have sown and it will effect their loved as well. May God give them all what they deserve. And again, I will NEVER forgive my old party…the one who I now don’t even recognize .

I tried this for anxiety and no results. Glad for those who do have results. But for me it didn’t help.

http://www.facebook.com/tim.q.dallacqua Tim Qj Dallacqua

Actually I have heard that untapping is quite a bit more effective and has longer lasting results

http://www.facebook.com/nothingmoreperfect Briana Loftin

I really don’t appreciate that this article claims to help people, adn then directs you to a site where you’re charged $97 – $197. I did sign up for the online thing, and if that is actually credible I will certainly change my stance. But as of now, I’m really disappointed with this article AND PP.

Catie

I think it is great that this couple has found something that works for them to reduce their anxiety and increase their feelings of control. From studies I’ve read about EFT though, it seems that most of its effectiveness lies in the desensitization process involved in consciously making one’s self aware of the fear or problem, accepting one’s self in spite of the fear, and then using breathing and relaxation techniques to bring down levels of anxiety after exposure to the feelings of fear. This is very similar process used in many other therapies for extinction of fear. I don’t think that this invalidates EFT as a method if it works for people, but it certainly is not revolutionary.